{"id":3927190,"date":"2026-07-27T16:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/mercury-reveals-short-lived-radiation-belts-during-its-swing-farther-from-the-sun\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:03:16","slug":"mercury-reveals-short-lived-radiation-belts-during-its-swing-farther-from-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/mercury-reveals-short-lived-radiation-belts-during-its-swing-farther-from-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercury reveals short-lived radiation belts during its swing farther from the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Mercury was long considered the exception to the rule that magnetic planets have radiation belts similar to Earth&#8217;s Van Allen belts, but a new study by University of Michigan Engineering and the University of California, Berkeley, suggests otherwise\u2014Mercury occasionally has such a layer of radiation in its magnetic field.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-07-mercury-reveals-short-belts-sun.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercury was long considered the exception to the rule that magnetic planets have radiation belts similar to Earth&#8217;s Van Allen belts, but a new study by University of Michigan Engineering and the University of California, Berkeley, suggests otherwise\u2014Mercury occasionally has such a layer of radiation in its magnetic field. <\/p>\n<p>Go to Source<\/p>\n<p> [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}